A Chinese man, identified as Jue, faced a perilous situation at a supermarket in Zhengzhou, Henan Province, China, when the glass railing of an escalator he had just used suddenly shattered. As Jue descended the escalator and lightly touched the glass railing, it violently shook and broke, leaving a large crack as immediate evidence.
Jue was left stunned and motionless, questioning how the glass could shatter from a light touch.
“I just touched it lightly. How did this happen? It shouldn’t have broken like this. This escalator is too fragile.”
Following the incident, supermarket officials demanded that Jue pay for the damage, stating that in the past six years, the escalator had never been damaged until Jue touched it, and therefore he should be compensated 8,300 yuan (more than 40,000 baht) (US$ 1,167).
However, Jue disagreed with the…
